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Weddit, ppl. adj. Also: wed(d)yt, veddyt, woddit, woded. [ME and e.m.E. weddede (c1175), weddedd (Orm), weddid (Cursor M.), wedded (Chaucer).] Married, chiefly of a wife. a1400 Leg. S. xxiv 20.
Borne He was of wedyt woman c1420 Wynt. ii 260.
He wes weddyt man Tyll this woman c1420 Ratis R. 951.
Be-war, my veddyt sone … And treit thi wyf rycht tendyrly 1482 Fam. Rose in Sc. Hist. Rev. XXXVII 98.
To haude her in honour and worship at all his power as his weddit wiff, for all the days of his lyff 1490 Thanes of Cawdor 74.
Schow var his lachtfull veddyt wiff c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 41 (STS).
Bewrie, said the wedo, ȝe weddit [M. woddit] wemen ȝing, Quhat mirth ȝe fand in maryage 1551 Hamilton Cat. 239.
Quhen the man sais … I tak thé to my weddit wyfe and the woman sais … I tak thé to my maryit husband 1560 Rolland Seven S. 6253.
I quhilk is ȝour weddit wife 1564 Riddell Tracts 163.
Robert … weddit the said James mother … promisand to take her to his spousit wyfe be ane priest, and in presence of … witnes, quha thairefter kepit house and cumpany wyt his said mother, as weddit folkis 1603 Philotus 90.
Weill war the woman … Had hap to be his weddit wyfe 1679 J. Somerville Mem. I 99.
The steward shall cause these two nightbours to swear if the said demandant be a woded man or have a man woded and if since his marriage [etc.]